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What Leads to Measurement Errors? Evidence from Reports of Program Participation in Three Surveys
Celhay, Pablo A.; Meyer, Bruce D.; Mittag, Nikolas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Measurement errors are often a large source of bias in survey data. Lack of knowledge of the determinants of such … respondent's degree of cooperation with the survey overall. We provide evidence on how survey design choices affect reporting … errors. Our findings help survey users to gauge the reliability of their data and to devise estimation strategies that can …
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Survey Experiments on Economic Expectations
Fuster, Andreas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
experiments within surveys, rather than just relying on observational survey data. We then outline the most commonly used …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938719
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All Banks Great, Small, and Global : Loan pricing and foreign competition
de Blas, Beatriz - 2010
Can allowing foreign participation in the banking sector increase real output, despite the imperfectly competitive nature of the industry? Using a new model of heterogeneous, imperfectly competitive lenders and a simple search process, we show how endogenous markups (the net interest margin...
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Screening Peers Softly : Inferring the Quality of Small Borrowers
Iyer, Rajkamal - 2009
The recent banking crisis highlights the challenges faced in credit intermediation. New online peer-to-peer lending markets offer opportunities to examine lending models that primarily cater to small borrowers and that generate more types of information on which to screen. This paper evaluates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463407
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Living with the Fear of Floating : An Optimal Policy Perspective
Lahiri, Amartya - 2001
As documented in recent studies, developing countries (classified by the IMF as floaters or managed floaters) are extremely reluctant to allow for large nominal exchange rate fluctuations. This 'fear of floating' is reflected in the fact that, in spite of being subject to larger shocks,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470329
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What Explains Skill Upgrading in Less Developed Countries?
Pavcnik, Nina - 2000
Although many developing countries have experienced growing income inequality and an increase in the relative demand for skilled workers during the 1980s, the sources of this trend remain a puzzle. This paper examines whether investment and adoption of skill-biased technology have contributed to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470897
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Starting Small in an Unfamiliar Environment
Rauch, James E. - 1999
Motivated by a characteristic way in which firms in developed countries make their decisions regarding cooperation with potential partners from less developed countries, we design a simple model of a DC firm's search for an LDC partner/supplier and the subsequent relationship between the two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471748
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Patterns of Skill Premia
Acemoglu, Daron - 1999
In this paper, I develop a model to analyze how skill premia differ over time and across countries, and use this model to study the impact of international trade on wage inequality. Skill premia are determined by technology and the relative supply of skills. An increase in the relative supply of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471782
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Inflation Stabilization and BOP Crises in Developing Countries
Calvo, Guillermo A. - 1999
High and persistent inflation has been one of the distinguishing macroeconomic characteristics of many developing countries since the end of World War II. Countries afflicted by chronic inflation, however, have not taken their fate lightly and have engaged in repeated stabilization attempts....
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Productivity Differences
Acemoglu, Daron - 1999
Many technologies used by the LDCs are developed in the OECD economies, and as such are designed to make optimal use of the skills of these richer countries' workforces. Due to differences in the supply of skills, some of the tasks performed by skilled workers in the OECD economies will be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471932